Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Medal for taking a machine-gun nest single-handed declared that he sallied out because he was afraid of lightning-a thunderstorm had made him too nervous to stay in his trench. But the 75 U. S. soldiers who, in the Philippines, voluntarily submitted to the bite of the yellow fever mosquito to find out whether this insect also carried dengue fever, had no such excuse. Their story was told last week in the report of Major General Ireland, Surgeon General of the Army...
...climates. When, five years ago, it swept across the southern states from Texas to Georgia, 2,000,000 cases were reported. It is always prevalent in the Philippines. Could dengue be carried by the Aedes egypti, the mosquito against whose whining depredations Dr. Walter S. Reed won his famous "yellow fever victory" a quarter of a century ago? Medical officers asked, like Dr. Reed, for volunteers; 75 soldiers sent in their names, were exposed to the mosquito, developed dengue. That was a year ago. Now, as a result of that experiment, dengue cases in the Philippines have been reduced from...
...Habaña filth was the predominant motif, with yellow fever the counterpoint, U. S. health officials scoured the city clean, but yellow fever persisted epidemically. Dr. Walter Reed came with his staff from Washington to investigate. On the hunch of an old Cuban physician, he experimented with mosquitoes, heretofore unsuspected and felt fairly assured that they were the carriers of the dread malady. But he needed proof and he found it when, after months of experiments, a virulent mosquito bit and infected one of the doctors on his staff. Another intrepid physician submitted himself to experimentation, was infected, died...
Worn by his tropical work, Dr. Reed died following an operation, and the government has named the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington in honor of the physician who "gave to man control over that dreadful scourge, yellow fever...
Under the shadow of a grey city, beside a strip of sea, stretches the golf course of St. Andrews, Scotland. Gulls fly over it, hills rise out of it, fairways cut cool lanes through its yellow furze. And at St. Andrews, last week, a U. S. golf team defeated an English golf team for the. Walker...